See also 1697 in piracy, 1699 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy.

Events

• December 8 – William III of England issues his 1698 Act of Grace.^[1]

Indian Ocean

• January 30 – Captain William Kidd plunders the Quedagh Merchant, an Armenian merchant vessel sailing under French passes, near the Malabar Coast.^[2]
• April – Kidd encounters Robert Culliford's pirate vessel Mocha Frigate at Île Sainte-Marie. Most of Kidd's crew desert to Culliford. Kidd burns the Adventure Galley and takes his remaining crew aboard the Adventure Prize (ex-Quedagh Merchant).^[2]
• September – Culliford and Dirk Chivers plunder the Great Muhammed.^[3]

North America

• Undated – Canoot attacks and steals John Redwood's ship^[4] then raids the town of Lewes the next day.^[5]
• Undated – William Cotter and his former shipmate John Blackmore are convicted of piracy but receive no punishment.^[6]

South America

• Undated – Anne Dieu-le-Veut is released from Colombia after being captured by Spain.^[7]

Births

• Charles Harris

Deaths

• Robert Colley
• Richard Glover
• Robert Glover